Today Olympus released a major firmware update which added full support of the Profoto Flash system on the E-M1II, E-M5II and PEN-F. To celebrate this Olympus and Profoto have sponsored a global 500px quest and the grand prize is an E-M1 Mark II and a complete Flash unit and TTl-O remote!

Full details at 500px.com/quests/193/seeking-light-in-nature

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Thanks to the source who sent me this!

Viltrox announce the development of two new Canon to MFT adapters:

EF-M1 and EF-M2 are electronic adapters for Canon EF and EF-S lenses to be used on Micro Four Third camera. EF-M2 also equipped with 4 elements in 4 groups which increase aperture by 1 stop and reduce focal length by 0.71x.
All adapters come with USB port for firmware update. Retail price, product details and launch date to be confirmed. Please LIKE our FB page for latest announcement.

What Would You Like in a GH5 Review? TheCameraProject

Introduce 4K 4:2:2 IPB 400mbps and FHD 4:2:2 IPB 200mbps modes for Panasonic GH5 (Change.org).
E-M1 Mark II – Discover Mongolia (Olympus Youtube).
GF9 hands-on by DC.watch.
How Weatherproof Are Olympus Cameras? (TheOnlinePhotographer).
E-M1 Mark II – The Sunrise of Bali in 4K (Olympus Youtube).
Panasonic unveils 360-Degree Live Camera System With Uncompressed 4K Output (Panasonic)

Plenty of news on the facebook E-M1II group and the GH5 group.

Pascal: “Hi, it would be great if you could share my latest documentary about an amazing elephant shelter in Thailand, shot with the GH4 and almost exclusively the 12-35 2.8. It is part of a project I have with my wife called Animal360, we are going to make a trip with the theme of animal welfare around the world. Feel free to share it!
https://vimeo.com/213980197
our website: https://www.animal360.fr/welcome/“

Dpreview talked to the Director of Panasonic’s imaging business Yosuke Yamane. And he gave quite a few insights on Panasonic future focus:

GH5 fimware update coming:
it will improve the smoothness of DFD for video

About on sensor phase detection:
“On-sensor phase detection doesn’t work any darker than F8, [which can be a problem in video]. It’s not necessarily true that phase detection is better than DFD plus contrast detection. We think our DFD is going to be better than [the best phase-based AF]. That’s our target and we want to realize that accurate autofocus”

Goal on the US market:
“For Lumix, the United States is a very strategic market. Our target is to double the business volume by 2020. For the future, to double the business, we’re going to focus on high end product: mirrorless cameras and high-end compacts. We expect a decent increase of the compact market to be sustainable.”

LX100 successor:
As the customer expects LX200 we will also strengthen the successor of LX100. How will we answer to the passionate customers of the LX100? We will study how we’re going to answer these customers.

Trickle down tech:
“we would like to expand the [GH5’s] technology to other models”

8k:
“In 2020, when the [Olympics] are in Tokyo, the era of 8K will start: we will develop the hardware to develop the 8K picture“

Olympus officially released the new firmware update for the E-M1II. We also gotfirmware updates for the PEN-F, E-M5II, 12-100mm and the 300mm PRO lens.